Friday, December 21, 2007

Javits is dead

The proposed expansion of the Jacob Javits Convention Center is dead, a state official announced Thursday at a contentious hearing where a deputy mayor got a verbal slapdown.

The much-hyped renovation of the West Side convention hall has been scrapped primarily due to the huge - and overlooked - cost of repairing the decrepit building, said Patrick Foye, chairman of the Empire State Development Corp.

"We expected a problem, but effectively what we inherited is a mess," Foye told an Assembly hearing, citing the center's leaky roof and damaged lobby.

"The more we peeled the layers of the onion, the more irritated our eyes became."

The cost of the expansion plan, initially estimated at $1.8 billion, has skyrocketed closer to $5 billion, Foye said.

Repairs to the building alone would cost $850 million, he added, noting that city and state officials are trying to put together a less-ambitious proposal.

4 comments:

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I don't know where to begin hearing the news about the Javits center other than hearing the somber ringing death keel sounding throughout NYC. We have spent decades fixing Javits internally, it's mortar and of the expansion plans. This is the most corrupt place on earth including everyone trying to direct it's destiny - no small wonder it's dead.

The next step is a give-away - we finally reached this point. The Pols will sell it's interest for $1 to a major developer whom will raze it, expand it, a rebuild a convention center with the most highest and dense development ever - sounds like a Trump like deal - a free waterfront property give away. Once razed, it will sit there like ground zero (Sacred Shame)mired like mud and NYC will sink like the Titanic without a convention center to attract folks to new ideas or provide a showcase to commerce.Thanks Gov. Spitzer and Mr. Bloomberg. All of our political capital has been spent on the Olmpics when it should have been focused on the convention center itself. We lose big time!

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